DigitalOceanBasic Regular 2C · 2 GB · 60 GB
Basic
DigitalOcean Basic Regular 2C costs $18/mo for 2 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM and 60 GB SSD, cheaper than 77% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$18/mo
$0.0268/hour
$9 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 77% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 2 GB> 6% of offers
- vCPU
- 2 shared> 14% of offers
- Disk
- 60 GB SSD> 45% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 3 TB/mo
Value score
51/100
- RAM · 2 GB
- 2.0
- vCPU · 2
- 3.0
- Disk · 60 GB SSD
- 1.9
- Traffic · 3 TB
- 0.9
- 7.8 points ÷ $18
- 0.43 per $
1 point per GB of RAM, 1.5 per vCPU, 1 per 25 GB of disk up to 500 GB (SSD × 0.8, HDD × 0.4), and 0.3 per TB of traffic up to 20 TB.
The score ranks 0.43 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.
Regions · 10
Data provenance
DigitalOcean · Public pricing page · digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (embedded plan JSON)
Fetched 16 Sept 2026
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Where this sits in the market
At $18/mo, Basic Regular 2C · 2 GB · 60 GB is cheaper than 77% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 2 GB of RAM at $9/GB, 66% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 51/100 ranks it #219 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 10th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
